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Combating Delinquency: No Place Like Home

When it comes to combating delinquency, there’s no place like home. That’s what nine months investigating America’s juvenile crime problem for the...

Opinion

Young Voters: Missing Inaction

No matter what organization sponsors youth development work, one certain feature is some variant on citizenship values – be it called civic...

Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier

In U.S. Budget, the Winner Is…

BY SUE BADEAU While not officially adjourned, the 106th Congress came to a halt a few days before Election Day and...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Wrong Choice for Me

BY SARAH DEVEAU It was my second ultrasound. I had been bleeding heavily, even though it was only the seventh week of...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Be Grateful There’s a Choice To Make

BY ROBIN THOMPSON Since women began to really stand up for their rights in the ’60s, abortion has been...

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Putting the Plural in Casey

It’s image remake time for the Seattle-based Casey Family Program (CFP). Started in 1966 by hometown-boy-made-good Jim Casey, founder of the United...

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Rewarding Search

When the Minneapolis-based Search Institute gathered for its annual Healthy Communities * Healthy Youth Conference in early November, it had plenty to...

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National Nonprofits

The Children’s Partnership, a small but polished advocacy organization, is expanding again. It was founded in 1993 by Wendy Lazarus, a former...

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The Foundation World

The Arsalyn Foundation (assets $9.6 million) in Glendora, Calif., founded in 1996 to “address the increased cynicism and the resultant decline in...

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Donna Departing

Donna Shalala, the longest-serving secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services since its establishment under Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the...

News

Once Lame Juvenile Justice System Jockeys to the Lead

Richmond, Ky.—In four short years, Kentucky has erased a blot of shame from the record of what was laughably described as the...

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Health Coverage for Legal Immigrant Children: New Census Data Highlights Importance of Restoring Medicaid and SCHIP Coverage

Leighton Ku and Shannon Blaney Center on Budget and Policy Priorities To examine changes in immigrants’ health insurance coverage, the report’s authors...

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Report on State Implementation of the Gun-Free Schools Act: School Year 1998-99

U.S. Department of Education “The information contained in this report should be interpreted with caution,” say the authors. In addition to questionable...

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School-Based Surveillance of Violence, Injury, and Disciplinary Actions

Paul Kingery and Aaron Alford Hamilton Fish Institute This report uses surveys of students to cast doubt on the validity of data...

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Snapshots of America’s Families II

The Urban Institute Between 1997 and 1999, the proportion of U.S. children with highly aggravated (“frustrated and stressed”) parents increased, says the...

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Child Health USA 2000

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...

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Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look

Joy DryfoosCoalition for Community Schools Of the 49 community school initiatives that submitted self-evaluations for this study, 36 reported academic gains...

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